Sentence examples for wave of modernism from inspiring English sources

Staley's literary expertise essentially stops with the nineteen-sixties, the final wave of modernism.

The great protagonist might be Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, who has to prove what that label stands for in the face of fashion's new wave of modernism.

It is also the latest attempt to breathe new life into Kunqu, a colorful art form that is sustained by government financing but is in danger of disappearing in the wave of modernism now sweeping the nation.

That was the case during the Great Depression, when an early wave of modernism flourished in the United States, partly because it efficiently addressed the middle-class need for a pared-down life without servants and other Victorian trappings.

Unlike Ellin ([2013]) we do not believe that "there is now a virtual consensus among planners and urban designers about what constitutes good urbanism" (Ellin, [2013]:1), because "just as post-modern sensibilities in urban design are turning into new orthodoxies, a new wave of modernism is moving to the centre stage" (Madanipour, [2006]:191).

NOTE: James Corner, Michael Van Valkenburgh and other notable landscape architects will be participants in the Second Wave of Modernism II: Landscape Complexity and Transformation conference at New York's Museum of Modern Art November 18 , 2011

Film, then, was the last great wave of high modernism.

"By the mid-1950s, a frenzy of change was sweeping the world in a wave of postwar modernism … By the 1960s the industrialised countries were well on the way to creating what many imagined would be a limitless Age of Convenience.

It fell between the first wave of early American modernism – artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Arthur Dove — and the abstract expressionism of the 1950s, led by Pollock, de Kooning and Rothko.

It fell between the first wave of early American modernism – artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Arthur Dove — and the abstract expressionism of the 1950s, led by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko.

In the 1950s, a wave of new critical approaches replaced modernism and paved the way for "post-modern" studies of Shakespeare.